March 21, 2009

March 20, 2009

working from home today, with the tv on, of course. i caught this movie on AMC. i like jack lemmon so i thought it would be ok. nope, not ok. horrible. the wikipedia entry is pretty funny though. someone really cares about the car and included some odd details.

March 17, 2009

ok, i also wanted to mention that while we were in chicago, the night i get really sick with a high fever, we saw an old tv show with paul winchell & jerry mahoney. the doll pretended to have a fever and covered its own face in red dots (to fake being sick) and...i swear i saw this and was not just hallucinating from a high fever!

i think i am more afraid of ventriloquist dolls then even clowns, but there's hope!

here's the reason i'm so afraid of them. i saw the ad for this movie as a little kid and it scared the crap out of me. of course i also memorized the poem and begged to see the movie:

more important info on ventriloquist dolls here and the people who operate them here. this is what happens on day 5 of being sick. i blog about ventriloquist dummies. good times...

March 13, 2009

March 9, 2009

we're going to chicago soon. i'm getting nervous about directions, maps, etc.... we don't have a working laptop with wireless, and i've been wanting to get GPS. groundcat is not so sure we need it. copax offered to lend me his GPS and here's what i told him about past trips:

i think dan wants to dig out his 2000 compaq laptop that doesn't have wireless or anything, but did have a GPS type map installed on it in 2005. here's how it worked for bonnaroo in 2006, and subsequent trips to philly and amish country:

1. dan loads up heavy laptop into a backpack with necessary cords

2. dan boots up laptop and waits about 20 minutes for it to finish opening

3. dan curses at laptop repeatedly

4. dan opens GPS type software, and waits for satellites to connect (or something like that) and curses more

5. i suggest we buy GPS

6. dan explains how this is "still good!" and just because the map hasn't been updated since 2005, the basic directions are fine!

7. dan accidentally unplugs some part of the laptop and loses satellites

8. more cursing, etc......

9. dan remembers the setting to have directions spoken out loud on the computer in a creepy robot voice.

10. dan types in creepy things for the computer to say to me while i drive, like, "you're going 10 miles over the speed limit, dumb ass!" or "i will see your blood in the moonlight"....

11. we get to where we're going by a combination of printed directions and guess work, dan believes the GPS on his laptop got us there.

read about our trip to bonnaro in 2006 here, here and here. (that was quite a way to start dating!!!)